Large near-field tsunamis pose a significant threat to the Canadian West Coast due to its proximity to the circum-Pacific belt where a significant tsunami-inducing earthquake event from the Cascadia subduction zone is expected. This study investigated the risks associated with such an event in terms of pedestrian evacuation needs and plans for the Town of Tofino, a small community located on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. The population-at-risk within the hazard zone and its ability to evacuate to safety is evaluated using anisotropic path-distance modelling. Mitigation measures, such as vertical evacuation buildings, are quantitatively evaluated. Site-specific inundation modelling was not performed as part of this study; tsunami hazard and safe zones were computed using a range of run-ups varying between 3 and 25 m. It was established that up to 80% of the population is within the maximum hazard zone considered. This evacuation modelling exercise indicates that a maximum of 13% of the population would have insufficient time to reach safety when using a mobility-impaired ambulatory speed. The use of three vertical evacuation buildings can reduce the risk of losing population in this category by 99%. Although some conservative assumptions were used (vertical datum at higher high water, reductions in safe zones by generalization process and mobility-impaired evacuation speeds), the evacuation potential is likely overestimated due to the coarseness of the topographic data used in the evacuation modelling and from an overestimated first wave arrival time. This is the first Canadian study which used anisotropic evacuation modelling to evaluate the vulnerability of a Canadian community to tsunami inundation.
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F. Darvishi A. Esmaili Sari P. Farshchi 《International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology》2004,1(2):89-95
Mnemiopsis leidyi, native to America, Invaded the Caspian Sea in 1999. By the end of 2000, the entire sea was accupied with them. In parallel, a sharp decline in pelagic fish such accurrred.This survey was studied the relationship between the M. leidyi and this decline. Dietary analysis was conducted on anchovy sprat (Clupeonnela engrauliformis) and M. leidyi from August 2001 to October 2002 in the coastal water in the southern parts of Caspian Sea, in Iran. M. leidyi was caught by plankton net, (the mesh size ～5 mm), at three depth at 5, 10 and 15m. Sprat was caught by fisheries boat at Babolasar fishery harbor. Samples were not fixed in M. leidyi common fixative, 96% Ethanol were used. The Schoener index analysis reflected a similar diet composition of both species, with an critical level of overlap (>89 in Babolsar samples and >84 in Noushahar samples). This competition is one of the reasons for the decline of anchovy sprat. also, the results show M. leidyi is feeding on fish eggs, but effects of this factor on anchovy population is less than feeding competition. Controlling of M. leidyi population is reducing the pressure of its invasion and the effective approach is introduces a predator to the Caspian Sea. 相似文献
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It is shown that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of black holes can accept a correction that effects on the radiation tunneling probability. By assumption of a spatially flat universe accompanied with expansion of metric, we could obtain an expression for entropy of black hole that is changing with respect to time and Bekenstein-Hawking temperature. 相似文献
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The properties of quintom model are investigated in the isotropic and homogeneous universe as a dynamical system dominated by dark energy including the phantom and quintessence fields. A general discussion about the phase space of spatially non-flat universe is presented. We study the results for the later times without assuming the specific form of the potential. Then, we exhibit an obvious structure for the dynamics of the system. 相似文献
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Beyranvand Azar Azizi Ghasem Alizadeh-Choobari Omid Darvishi Boloorani Ali 《Natural Hazards》2019,98(1):229-249
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Natural Hazards - Spatial–temporal changes of land surface parameters (land cover change, net primary production, and vegetation phenology) affect the characteristics of atmospheric dust.... 相似文献
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We study the effects of the generalized uncertainty principle in the tunneling formalism for Hawking radiation to evaluate the quantum-corrected Hawking temperature and entropy for a Kerr black hole. By assumption of a spatially flat universe accompanied with expansion of metric, the modified area and entropy of Kerr black hole are calculated and we could obtain an expression for entropy of black hole that is changing with respect to time and Bekenstein-Hawking temperature. 相似文献
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By means of the semiclassical approximations for the action, the horizon of Kerr-Sen black hole is studied. The corrected entropy of the Kerr-Sen black hole in a low-energy string theory is calculated. By assumption of a flat Friedman-Robertson-Walker (F.R.W.) geometries, we study horizon and present the semi-classic approximation affects of the thermodynamics properties. We discuss some physical consequences of this result and the properties of the Kerr-Sen black hole. 相似文献
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Hawking temperature and entropy of Kerr-Sen black hole as a series with dependence on Plank constant
By assumption of a low-energy string theory in addition to the necessity of the semi-classic expansion on action, we study Hawking temperature and entropy of Kerr-Sen black hole. These subjects, recently have introduced in the literature and consist of the new terms of temperature and entropy as the expansion form with powers of ?. Comparing the results with the high energy black hole demonstrates how the semi-classic approximation affects the thermodynamics of the Kerr-Sen black hole, corrected terms classical action and the entropy. 相似文献
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